Jason Ray
	Position: Assistant Coach - Running Backs Experience: Third Season at UW Alma Mater: Missouri `07

Email: jray12@uwyo.edu

Jason Ray began his college coaching career in 2009 with the Wyoming Cowboys. He will coach the Cowboy running backs for the third consecutive season in 2011.

Ray will welcome back junior running back Alvester Alexander in 2011. Alexander earned Honorable Mention All-Mountain West Conference honors in 2010 as he ranked No. 5 in the Mountain West and No. 80 in the nation in rushing, averaging 66.0 yards per carry. Alexander also ranked No. 5 in the MW and No. 74 in the NCAA in scoring, averaging 7.0 points per game. Alexander set new UW records for rushing touchdowns in a single season (14 in 2010) and a single game (5 vs. Colorado State in 2010).

Wyoming's 35-28 win over Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl was Ray's first bowl appearance as a coach. He was a member of four bowl teams during his five years as a student-athlete at Missouri.

Immediately prior to coming to Wyoming, Ray served as a Development Associate with the Tiger Scholarship Fund at his alma mater, the University of Missouri. Ray was also an intern in the Missouri marketing and development departments. He played wide receiver on the Tiger Football team from 2003-07.

Ray was elected a team captain his senior season of 2007 in what was the most successful season in Missouri school history. The Tigers ended the season with a school record 12 wins and were ranked No. 4 in the final Associated Press rankings, which was the highest season-ending ranking in school history. He was part of a Missouri offense that ranked No. 5 in the nation in total offense, averaging 490.3 yards per game. The 2007 Tiger offense also ranked No. 8 in the NCAA in scoring offense (39.9 points per game) and No. 9 in passing offense (314.1 yards per game).

During his five years as a player at Missouri, the Tigers made four bowl appearances. His senior season, the Tigers defeated Arkansas, 38-7, in the Cotton Bowl. In 2006, Missouri played in the Sun Bowl, losing to Oregon State, 38-39. Following the 2005 season, Mizzou captured the Independence Bowl Championship with a 38-31 win over South Carolina, and in Ray's true freshman season of 2003 Missouri also played in the Independence Bowl, losing to Arkansas, 14-27.

Ray was a Second Team Academic All-Big 12 selection during his career. He also was named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll, and was voted president of the Mizzou Student-Athlete Advisory Committee his senior year of college.

A native of Porter, Okla., his younger brother Michael was a strong safety for the Wyoming Cowboys from 2004 to 2008, completing his eligibility just as the elder Ray was hired as an assistant coach for the Pokes. Michael Ray has since returned to the University of Wyoming, and is currently an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Wyoming.

Jason Ray completed his bachelor's degree in marketing from Missouri in December of 2007.

He will recruit the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma for the Cowboys.